Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself . |
| 2 | Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula . |
| 3 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 4 | The car reels and swerves up on to the pavement , crashing into a shopfront and shattering itself and the window panes . |
| 5 | The pale colour is usually white or yellow or orange and shows up vividly against the dark areas . |
| 6 | It usually starts to improve at ten weeks and clears up completely by the 14th week . |
| 7 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 8 | The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea . |
| 9 | ‘ There ought to be a law against it , ’ replied Dorothy emphatically , as she banged knives and forks down on to the table . |
| 10 | She later shows her mettle as a clog dancer abetted by four pretty girls , tries to set her cap at Father Thomas , but finally realises she can not frustrate true love and dances out happily with the rest . |
| 11 | It is indicative , too , when a mistle thrush changes his tune , forgets to repeat his challenging spring song and slips down self-consciously into the lower boughs of a larch to all but whisper a softer , lazier , persuasive serenade . |
| 12 | Anyway , the water goes up under pressure into the tanks in the roof and feeds down again to the washrooms by gravity . ’ |
| 13 | The competition started yesterday and carries on today with the final tomorrow . |